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LOCAL CLASSIFIEDS PAGE 11 Jan. 7, 2018 Your Neighborhood — Your News® Guv unveils Waste equity bill offi cially dead plan to end Miller withdraws support from environmental legislation he co-sponsored in 2014 food shaming BY NAEISHA ROSE not to support Intro 495-C, there- Brooklyn and the South Bronx. cent of New York City’s trash with fore killing the waste equity bill he The purpose of the bill, which caps on the number of refuse sent BY NAEISHA ROSE Community leaders in Queens co-sponsored in 2014. The bill could was rooted in the 2006 Solid Waste to them, according to the Depart- and environmentalists were shocked have helped to reduce the garbage Management Plan, was to help ment of Sanitation. The bill would Ahead of his State of the last month when Councilman I. stations in low-income neighbor- southeast Queens and other com- have cut traffic and pollution and State address Wednesday, Gov. Daneek Miller (D-St. Albans) chose hoods in southeast Queens, north munities overburdened with 75 per- improved air quality while com- Andrew Cuomo previewed his mercial Marine Transfer Stations five-step plan to combat hunger were created. for food insecure students from The city’s SWMP would have kindergarten through college. switched garbage transfer from Cuomo’s announcement could THREE KINGS DAY IN CORONA long-haul trucking to marine and not have come at a better time rail transfer, according to www. for Queens’ children. waste360.com. Throughout Queens, there Waste360.com, a site that follows are 63,798 children who were in trends in solid waste, stated truck food insecure homes from 2014 travel would have went down by 60 to 2016, according to statistics miles and greenhouse gas emissions reported by the non-profit Hun- would be reduced 34,000 tons. ger Free America. That is about Rev. Andrew Wilkes of the 10.3 percent of the borough’s Greater Allen A.M.E. Cathedral in youngsters. Jamaica was displeased by Miller’s Hunger Free America, decision. which does research, advocacy “We are troubled that Council and policy work to combat hun- member Miller went from cham- ger, said in a 2017 Survey of pioning waste equity at our Toxic NYC Foods Pantries & Soups Tour and Pray-In last February to Kitchens that if President Don- walking away from Intro 495-C in a ald Trump goes through with backroom discussion,” Wilkes said. his tax plan to slash $192 bil- Over 11 months ago Miller, Wil- lion from the Supplemental kes, residents and sanitation work- Nutrition Assistance Program, ers of the Royal Waste dump on 173rd the city’s food bank that helps U.S. Rep. Joe Crowley (c.) helps a youngster — chosen to play Joseph for the night — choose a toy from a gift table at Street and Liberty Ave., toured the the hungry, food deprivation the Three Kings Day celebration at the Queens Library branch in Corona. Photo by Michael Shain facility that is directly near a park Continued on Page 8 Continued on Page 5 College Pt. residents Indiana Jones fan fl ick fi lms in Qns oppose potential hotel BY MARK HALLUM and revolve around the when the Dutch East India Queens Giant as the tree Company was conducting BY GINA MARTINEZ A Queens native is of life. business in the area. bringing his filmmaking The Queens Giant, a John Galligan, the College Point residents are concerned about a po- skills to the table to cre- 133-foot, 400-year-old tulip film’s producer, director tential new hotel. ate a fan fiction addition poplar, is “the oldest living and lead fedora-wearing State Sen Tony Avella (D-Bayside) has written Queens filmmaker John Galligan takes up to the Indiana Jones saga, thing in the city,” the city actor, hopes to have “Indi- a letter to city Department of Buildings Commis- Harrison Ford’s role as Indiana Jones in a a narrative that will take Parks Department says. 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RUGS & PAINTINGS WANTED All Tiffany Items Prompt & Courteous Wanted Service SHERBEE ANTIQUESs!NDREW+ORMAN Proprietor 917-748-7622 Maloney critiques Plaxall’s plan for Anable Basin 3 BY BILL PARRY rently a gloomy industrial around it, and six public feet of open space and that area with limited roads, pedestrian lanes that will the development could be a The public will have an- limited access, sparse pub- Q provide connections to the “great complement” to Long UEENS other two weeks to submit lic transportation and very Basin from the north, south Island City’s existing supply written comments on Long little retail,” Maloney said. and east,” he said. “Connec- of commercial office space to W Island City-based Plaxall’s “We have seen the success tivity and public access real- cater to startups from future EEKLY Anable Basin rezoning pro- of Queens West and Hunt- ly lie at the heart of our plan graduates from Cornell Tech , J posal after the Department ers Point South in Long Is- for a cohesive district.” on Roosevelt Island. But she AN of City Planning extended land City and in Northern Maloney is worried about did have a warning for Plax- 2018 . 7, the original deadline. The Brooklyn. And it is time for accessible transit. all. agency will accept com- that trend to reach Anable “I am concerned that “During Superstorm ments on the plan to develop Basin — an extraordinary there is insufficient plan- Sandy, all of Anable Basin 15 acres along the East River area with magnificent views ning for the transportation was flooded,” she said. “The waterfront until the close of of Manhattan and the East U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney reviews some of the positives and and infrastructure needs of city’s inundation maps show business Jan. 19. River. This rezoning has the negative aspects of Plaxall’s Anable Basin Rezoning propos- this new community. The flooding all the way to 11th A rezoning is necessary potential to create another al to develop 15 acres on Long Island City waterfront. subways closest to Anable Street and in some areas to allow for higher residen- great neighborhood, if it is Courtesy WXY architecture + urban design Basin are a considerable even farther east. Vernon tial and commercial density done right.” distance away and are al- Boulevard was under water than is currently permitted While Maloney is pleased school.” “Street access to Anable ready overburdened,” she from just before 43rd Road all by the city. that Plaxall is proposing Maloney is also pleased Basin is inconsistent,” she said. “The 7 and E trains are the way south to 46th Road. U.S. Rep. Carolyn Malo- to give the city a lot at 11th to see the retail component said. “It is striking to see that among the most overcrowd- Clearly any construction at ney (D-Astoria) reviewed the Street and 47th Avenue for of the plan. no thought is being given to ed in the city.” Anable Basin must take into draft scope of work proposed a 728-seat, five-story school, “Neighborhoods need ba- mapping additional streets Yolles said the new NYC account the area’s propensity by Plaxall that within 15 the model provided appears sic things like grocery stores, to connect the street grid in Ferry stop on the Astoria to flood. Better drainage and years would bring a 65-story to have no outdoor play- barbers, convenience stores, this new neighborhood. That line is located at the south- more resiliency are critical tower; 5,000 residential units ground space. shoe repair stores, dry clean- needs to be remedied.” ern edge of the Basin and to making this development spread out over eight build- “The school is not yet ers, restaurants and other Yolles said Anable Basin will provide a “convenient a success.” ings, with 25 percent set designed,” Plaxall spokes- important providers,” Malo- has been inaccessible to the transit option for all those Plaxall is well aware of aside for affordable housing; man James Yolles said. “It’s ney said. “Retail uses ensure public for its 150-year his- living and working around the flooding that occurred manufacturing and office certainly possible that the that the streets become lively tory. the new Anable Basin.” during Sandy. The company space; and an esplanade to school could include out- and that people have reasons “Our plan revolves Maloney likes that the offices are on 46th Avenue make Anable Basin acces- door space. The city would to come to the area.” around opening up the Basin rezoning plan includes an in- just off Vernon Boulevard. sible to the public. both determine what type Maloney is worried, how- to the public -- via a new bi- centive for arts and cultural “By raising the espla- “Anable Basin is cur- of school it is and design the ever, about logistics. level esplanade that wraps uses as well as 135,000 square nade, our project will pro- Windsor Oaks relinquishes effort to remove cat colony BY MARK HALLUM noticed the cats being evict- misunderstood order from for comment, nor could the opposition to developing the standing between the resi- ed from their shelters.